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| Which science came first in the Scientific Revolution? |
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| What was Nicolaus Copernicus's contribution to the world of science? |
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| The heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the universe |
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| What did Galileo Galilei do? |
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| Agreed with the heliocentric design and articulated the concept of a universe totally subject to mathematical laws. |
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| Francis Bacon is known for stating which principle? |
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| Empiricism: the use of experiment and observation derived from sensory evidence to construct scientific theory or philosophy of knowledge |
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| Issac Newton discovered what? |
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| Rousseau supported which political principle? |
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| Those of Locke, Plato and Calvin defining freedom as obedience to the law (law created by the general will) and society is more important that its individual members because they are what they are only as a result of their relationship to the larger community. |
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| Montesquieu admired which constitution? |
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| Deism involved which beliefs? |
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| Belief in a rational God who had created the universe, but then allowed it to function without his interference according to the mechanisms of nature and a belief in rewards and punishments after death for human action. |
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| Which monarchs ran on enlightened absolutism? |
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| Fredrick II of Prussia, Joseph II of Austria, and Catherine II of Russia |
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